Category: Stretch Your Food Dollar
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Grill Master
The Fourth of July is right around the corner. That means it’s time to light up the grill. And does it honestly get any more lesbi-licious than a dyke standing over a grill? I don’t think so! We’ve actually been firing up the grill since the beginning of May. Pretty much all of our dinners…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Storing Seasonal Fruit
I love strawberries. Seriously. When I go to the farmers’ market and see the strawberry lady who drives all the way from Oxnard, CA every week, I want to marry her and have her strawberry babies. OK, not really. Oh wait, yes I do! Strawberries are particularly cheap this time of year. You could get…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Seasonal Fruit
Summer is here! We’ve been really lucky that so far the summer seems to be pretty mild here in Arizona. We can actually enjoy our dinner out in the arbor, and it’s not already 100 degrees at 10:00 AM. Our garden is really going bananas, and we’re already up to our ears in tomatoes and…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Are You Food Bank “Worthy?”
Today’s edition of Stretch Your Food Dollar is about to depart from the usual format. I’m not offering shopping tips or recipes this week. Instead, I want to ask our readers a question that was spurred by an IM conversation I was having yesterday with a friend. My friend is a grad student who is…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar with $3 Dinners
Eating on a tight budget is nothing new for Queercents readers. We’re all trying to stretch that food dollar. Author Jerry Kolber is really taking that challenge to the extreme. In his new book $3 Dinner, Kolber shares recipes and shopping tips to help you make 30 dinners for under $3 a piece. The majority…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Dress Up Ramen Noodles
I’m going to admit a secret, ya’ll. During my first semester of college, I survived on $10 a week for groceries. I’m not proud of this. I subsisted on ramen noodles and butter sandwiches. But boy, could I stretch a food dollar! An entire semester of eating ramen noodles will teach you to get creative.…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Canned Good Creations
An article in yesterday’s New York Times made me smile. Food companies are shifting the focus of their advertisements and trying to convince consumers that convenience foods can help families stretch their food dollars. According to the article: Kraft and Nestlé, which make those products, are among the growing ranks of marketers playing up the…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Calculating Your Food Storage Needs
In last week’s edition of Stretch Your Food Dollar, I introduced the topic of food storage. Stocking up on canned goods and dried food is a really important piece of the food budgeting puzzle. If you add a little bit at a time, you can slowly build up your reserves for a rainy day. It’s…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: The Importance of Food Storage
Times are really getting tough for folks, and more and more families are having to curtail their spending habits. In lean times, food storage is a total blessing. I grew up in a Mormon household, where having a year supply of food was considered just as important as believing in Jesus or paying tithing to…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Does Clipping Coupons Make Sense?
I’ve been writing the Stretch Your Food Dollar series for almost a year. During that time, we’ve talked about a lot of things: How to Set a Food Budget For Your Household Shopping with a List The Benefits of Frozen Produce Canning and Preserving Making Your Own Bread Proper Food Storage One thing we haven’t…
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